Mealey's (August 9, 2018, 11:12 AM EDT) -- KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Aug. 6 the Tennessee Court of Appeals left intact a jury’s determination that the family of a nursing home patient is entitled to punitive damages from the facility but vacated a $28 million punitive damage award upon reversing the jury’s findings of direct and vicarious liability by the facility’s parent companies and two individual officers (Cindy Hatfield v. Allenbrooke Nursing Home LLC, No. W2017-00957-COA-R3-CV, Tenn. App., 2018 Tenn. App. LEXIS 450)....